Chronic Pain After Open Mesh Repair of Incisional Hernia

Kurzer, Mindy S.; Kark, A.; Hussain, S. T.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11541-7_29

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“…"Chronic or long-term pain following open-incisional hernia repair is poorly documented. Traditionally, studies of incisional hernia repair have focused only on short-term complications (infection, hematoma), major morbidity, hospital stay, and recurrence" [24].…”

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Female sex as independent risk factor for chronic pain following elective incisional hernia repair: registry-based, propensity score-matched comparison

Köckerling

Hoffmann²,

Adolf³

et al. 2019

Hernia

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Introduction To date, little attention has been paid by surgical scientific studies to sex as a potential influence factor on the outcome. Therefore, there is a sex bias in the surgical literature. With an incidence of more than 20% after 3 years, incisional hernias are a common complication following abdominal surgical procedures. The proportion of women affected is around 50%. There are very few references in the literature to the influence of sex on the outcome of elective incisional hernia repair. Materials and methods In all, 22,895 patients with elective incisional hernia repair from the Herniamed Registry were included in the study. The patients had undergone elective incisional hernia repair in a laparoscopic IPOM, open sublay, open IPOM, open onlay or suture technique. 1-year follow-up was available for all patients. Propensity score matching was performed for the 11,480 female (50.1%) and 11,415 male (49.9%) patients, creating 8138 pairs (82.0%) within fixed surgical procedures. Results For pain on exertion (11.7% vs 18.3%; p < 0.001), pain at rest (7.53% vs 11.1%; p < 0.001), and pain requiring treatment (5.4% vs 9.1%; p < 0.001) highly significant disadvantages were identified for the female sex when comparing the different results within the matched pairs. That was also confirmed on comparing sex within the individual surgical procedures. No sex-specific differences were identified for the postoperative complications, complication-related reoperations or recurrences. Less favorable intraoperative complication results in the female sex were observed only for the onlay technique. Conclusions Female sex is an independent risk factor for chronic pain after elective incisional hernia repair.

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